...the other seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.
I don't believe that about Kennedy. Wrong about several important things, absolutely. Malign, no. I condemn what the publisher did to this essay, but I wouldn't choose to publish that sentence either.
I don’t think that sentence is necessarily implying that he’s doing it maliciously or that his primary purpose is to kill people, just that his actions will kill, regardless of intent.